Foreigners Own Our Debt

Foreign entities own $6 trillion of US debt:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/foreign-ownership-us-government-debt-passes-6-trillion

The Federal Reserve System owns $2.4 trillion more.

And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson [attributed]